Comments on: Find Top Running Processes by Highest Memory and CPU Usage in Linux

By: Ai Loon

Ai Loon — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:51:38 +0000

How do I list down the usernames that are consuming high memory/CPU and remove the duplicate names? The names should be separated by ;.

Mario — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:44:37 +0000

In reply to Mark Thomas. That is because you should use --sort=%mem without (-) before %mem.

anil — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 09:34:21 +0000

You can use this command:

# ps -eo pid,ppid,cmd,%mem,%cpu --sort=-%mem | head

Mark Thomas — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:22:36 +0000

Maybe I am doing something wrong. It seems to be sorting the highest usage to the bottom.

# ps -eo pid,ppid,cmd,%mem,%cpu --sort=-%mem

reddy — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 14:31:57 +0000

Thanks a lot.